Book Quote by Joe Hill

“Vic smelled the vast vault filled with books before she saw it, because her eyes required time to adjust to the cavernous dark. She…

— Joe Hill

“a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.”

— Joe Hill

Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.

— Arundhati Roy

He held the book up to his nose. It smelled like Old Spice talcum powder. Books that smelled that way were usually fun to…

— John Bellairs

“She loved the smell of books, the feel of books, the look of them on the shelf.”

— Barbara Michaels

The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and…

— Shannon Hale

“It smelled like a library – the initial whiff of something bitter, followed by the scent lingering in every book there – dusty, sweet,…

— Kimberly Krey

“My mother, who would always buy her books new, hated it the vintage hardcovers with their cracked spines and threadbare cloth covers. True you…

— Jodi Picoult

He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a manuscript was…

— Gustave Flaubert

“She breathed deeply and smelled water-logged books, the perfume of rotting cardboard and paper that had dried beneath the furnace of the July sun.…

— Joe Hill

She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding…

— Shannon Hale

“Back then she used to hide from her mother in the secret space just to worry her, but now she stocked it with magazines,…

— Sarah Addison Allen